A-type star · white star
2 Hya
2 Hya is a white star in the constellation Hydra 163 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,026 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 163 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3321 · HD 71297 · HIP 41375
8,026 K
temperature
5.60
apparent magnitude
12.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
163 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
12.54×
the Sun's light output
2.10
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.